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Class of 2026 School of Medicine Students Serve Charlottesville Community

8/25/2022

School of Medicine Class of 2026 Orientation Day of Service On Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 152 first-year School of Medicine students in the Class of 2026 gathered with their Colleges…

Train Your Mind, Change Your Life

8/24/2022

The brain is an incredible learning machine. So good in fact, that it retains thought and behavior patterns even when they no longer serve us well. Through the practice of…

Date: Sep 7, 2022 - Sep 7, 2022

Start Time: 3:30 pm

End Time: 4:30 pm

Doctor with ALS Fighting for a Cure, Creates Hummingbird Fund to Promote Awareness

8/18/2022

James Plews-Ogan, MD, a retired faculty in the School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, cared for children with rare diseases throughout a career as a pediatrician that spans 40 years.…

Emily Hillaker, DO, Worked with Local Organization to Install Communication Board, Enabling Non-Verbal Users to Better Communicate

8/18/2022

Emily Hillaker, DO, a chief resident in the School of Medicine's Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Department, received a $1500 Rob Gotlin Community Leadership Grant from the American Osteopathic College of…

Jamie Zoellner, PhD, Works With Cancer Centers to Boost Colorectal Cancer Screenings in Southwest Virginia

8/18/2022

UVA Cancer Center and Community Health Center of the New River Valley are expanding their partnership to boost colorectal cancer screening rates to 80% of eligible patients. The two centers…

SNMA Held Annual Unity Photo Campaign, Week of Reflection, in Remembrance of August 2017 Events

8/18/2022

School of Medicine's Student National Medical Association (SNMA) held its annual Unity Photo Campaign/Week of Reflection last week in remembrance of the events that took place during the Charlottesville Unite…

Karmen Fittes, MBA, Inaugural Chief of UVA Health Human Resources to begin September 1

8/11/2022

Karmen Fittes, MBA will join UVA Human Resources as UVA Health's inaugural Chief of Human Resources on September 1, 2022. Karmen is joining UVA from University of California, Davis where…

William Petri, MD, PhD, Discusses COVID-19 Connection to Neanderthals Chromosome 3 and Monkeypox in Daily Progress Article

8/11/2022

William A. Petri, MD, PhD discusses COVID-19 questions about individual susceptibility to COVID and the connection to genetic differences in chromosome 3 which comes in part from Neanderthals. He also…